OT [sorta]: acm TechNews item - talks about [secrecy vs.] "Open Source"

[Mike Schwartz]

an article from (the KC Star "via") acm TechNews:
  http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2008-09-sep/sep-17-2008.html#379392
says in part,
:
Minerva [...] an open source Pentagon effort [...] follows the
philosophy that secrecy and classification of data is
counterproductive, says Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "In the open
source world, respect is earned, not assigned," says Rice University
computer scientist Dan Wallach [...]
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale AZ
schwartz at acm.org